tags #351433 confirmed pending thanks On Sat, Feb 04, 2006 at 09:02:25PM +0000, Glyn Kennington wrote: > The regexp in aide.conf's debsums line: > > #/var/lib/dpkg/info/([^\.]+).md5sums u+g+s+m+md5+sha1 > > limits the pattern to only those filenames with no dots (other than the > one immediately before "md5sums"). > > It would appear that the regexp was designed to do exactly this, but I > can't work out why.
Neither do I. This was added before my time. > The result is that aide ignores the md5sums files > of all packages whose names contain a dot (eg. as part of a minor > version number), which is not what I would have expected. I suppose that a dot was a quite uncommon character in package names at that time. I have changed the regexp in svn. Greetings Marc -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Marc Haber | "I don't trust Computers. They | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | lose things." Winona Ryder | Fon: *49 621 72739834 Nordisch by Nature | How to make an American Quilt | Fax: *49 621 72739835 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
